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There’s a nice little article on sharpening:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sharpening/wiki/gettingstarted
Funny, some of the text displayed in the Google Reddit page snippets in search results are not found on the page!
Also found out that both sides must be sharpened if using for slicing.
Nice, it’s fair to say more details on some recipes would be a…[Read more]

Careful, He Might Hear You suffers from a once common Australian ailment – superb orchestration to much over the top in covering the comparatively mediocre dramatic episodes that bedeck the narrative. Still, themes and motifs are consistent, and the happy ending comes as a pleasant surprise.
Seven Types of Ambiguity is a well-crafted and intricate…[Read more]

There’s one in the deep south still:
https://www.royalwarrant.org/company/mcilhenny-company
Have a bottle of the habanero somewhere – potent stuff. 🙂

The curious case of increasing capacity versus increasing voltage:

How to Connect Batteries in Series and Parallel

It seems fine conceptually, and then again electricity…[Read more]

Oh right, are you still on Debian or were there plans to change to Arch Linux/OpenSuse?
OpenSuse looks cool for the VM: prefer Leap to Tumbleweed?

Ok, looks like a bit going on with it, especially when the docs refer to using version x of this with version y of that, what happens when the versions change? Well, the good news is a new Windows rig coming this way this week, details of which will be posted accordingly.
It’s preferable to use that instead of the HP, as the security here gets a…[Read more]

Thanks – will keep in mind electric fence etiquette:

They chose a mighty fine song to wind up Shrek 4:

Never experienced anything like a crypto themed dream- the complexity of a musical one is sure to be enhanced by different tuning/scaling. Come to think of it, how about some kind of psychometric device for downloading dreams and converting them to text?
Wow, an absolute monster indeed. Looks like it’s ready t0 go in a Linux system – do you use…[Read more]

The worms suffered a near mass extinction event soon after- possible reasons being new home/acidity/heat – all of which were checked out. In the case of heat, the bin is well protected under the house, and some worms in castings in a separate area exposed to sun were fine. Population recovery is slow but sure. 🙂
Have a young Indian guava outside…[Read more]

Consensus is pretty good! https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/249785452-mad-about-dc-2026–1-mad-about-dc
Weird – Amazon offer a Kindle version and another which won’t ship to this location. Going into a newsagency/magazine shop used to be so easy. 🙁

In what day of the year do all parents decide to focus greatly on their progeny and issue?
In…[Read more]

Ren and Stimpy also had La Femme from the same composer:

Funny as there seems to be a foul-up with the KPM listing. This and this have it as by Caesar Giovannini & Wayne Robinson.
La Femme doesn’t have piano for a start, and the arrangement style is more akin…[Read more]

Titan’s too cold for us at present – is there hope in establishing a colony underneath the surface of the moon? Bio-engineering our brain processes to vicariously sense robots skating and cavorting on the icy plains above is another possibility.
It might also depend on the provenance of the coffee itself. It seems 6-7 bars works for many – in…[Read more]

All those things would certainly add multiple dimensions to the game experience. Especially when balancing stuff like this:

Yes, the links to Calvin Ball in that section are tenuous at best.

Never put a candidate in a hat

And then pull out a rabbit instead. Which probably means Penn & Teller want to get…[Read more]

Ah, okay the FTA channels and streamers get a lot of content from Britbox over here, so super lucky. If ever reaching out for a rich serving of good ol’ classic Coen Bros. yeehah, look no further than Raising Arizona. The banjo Ode to Joy continues chime in with the tinnitus even as we type. 😛

The Jetty is one where they throw a bunch of characters, mysteries, tropes, moralising and murder into the pot and hope it all comes out right. Would have been bearable if the dialogue had any pith, and the ending was not such a disaster. Nevertheless, a potential salve for depression is there if so inclined. 🙂
Cheat was better, but don’t expect…[Read more]

Fabulous. 🙂 Updated the Wikipedia link.
Oh, the memory has returned – turns out Lucille Ball’s husband was Henry after all. 😛
Great! More info over here:
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Calvin_Ball

According to Role-playing game designer Ron Edwards, “Calvinballing” is when a player in a tabletop role-playing game utilizes mean-spirited…

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The original Evil Overlod list is here: https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Butler%27s_Original_Evil_Overlord_List
Best to get a copy in case, as the original site has gone, and if it exists in IA, not easy to find.
Anspach’s version is everywhere, including at IA where this was crawled in…[Read more]

Is there some element of engagement farming as one critic put it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600730
It’s a bit catty admittedly, it’s not easy to determine whether all of the prose and images were AI generated. No matter, the article is engaging enough to warrant a nod of affirmation at least. 😛
Anaesthesia with diethyl ether impairs…[Read more]

Also came across this one, lo-fi sci-fi comedy with an Aussie tang:

The YouTube link has the episodes. 🙂
Civil War doesn’t tick all of the boxes, especially those for the faint hearted. Sweeping aside the reason and purpose of the conflict involving a…[Read more]

Yeah, the plastic components are sure to degrade faster in sunlight, and as well as algæ there are ants and spiders. Still, an ezy clip/Velcro cover might work. 😛
Funny how our conception of Leonardo’s approach to each subject is as Leoni arranged it, long time taught in schools and in encyclopædic reference. The new Leonardo paradigm will be t…[Read more]

Never got into SpongeBob – from the promos it never looked as if it had added anything to than say the artistic finery of The Simpsons – or Beavis & Butthead et all. It seemed to flounder after a while, too. Did you get any laughs from it?
🙂 There’s a project for a rainy day, a rogue’s gallery of snapshots from your favourite D-grade movies.…[Read more]